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US 2006/0190066 A1Published application
System and method for bringing hypothermia rapidly onboard
OwnerWilliam Wortheninventor
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Abstract
An intravenous heat exchange catheter and/or an external cooling pad can be used to maintain hypothermia in, e.g., a cardiac arrest patient, but to accelerate the cooling process the patient first can be infused with cold saline before the opportunity arises to connect the catheter or pad to the patient.
Claims10
1-3. (canceled)
A method for treating a patient using hypothermia, comprising:
- injecting cold saline into the venous system of the patient while the patient is located in at least one of:
- an ambulance, or an emergency room of a hospital;
- then subsequently
- maintaining hypothermia in the patient using at least one of:
- an external heat exchange pad, or an intravascular heat exchange catheter, while the patient is in at least one of:
- an operating room of a hospital, or an intensive care unit of a hospital.
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A method for treating a patient, comprising:
- infusing into the patient's venous system a cold fluid having a temperature lower than a temperature of the patient to cause the fluid to mix with the blood of the patient and thereby cool the patient;
- and
- engaging a cooling apparatus with the patient to maintain a desired hypothermic condition in the patient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.